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Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse

Alora Young
4.9/5 (33261 ratings)
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Description:An "extraordinary" (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history."A masterpiece that beautifully captures the heartbreak that accompanies coming of age for Black girls becoming Black women."--Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb, longlisted for the National Book AwardWalking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women forgotten by the historical record but brought to life through Young's imagination; to Amy, the first of Young's foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave, unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Young's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Young in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman.The lives of these girls and women come together to form a unique American epic in verse, one that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in our nation's psyche. Each poem is a story in verse, and together they form a heart-wrenching and inspiring family saga of girls and women connected through blood and history.Informed by archival research, the last will and testament of an enslaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those too often muted in America: Black girls and women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse. To get started finding Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
361
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
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Release
2022
ISBN
0593498003

Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse

Alora Young
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: An "extraordinary" (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history."A masterpiece that beautifully captures the heartbreak that accompanies coming of age for Black girls becoming Black women."--Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb, longlisted for the National Book AwardWalking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women forgotten by the historical record but brought to life through Young's imagination; to Amy, the first of Young's foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave, unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Young's great-grandmother Gentry, unhappily married at fourteen; to her own mother, the teenage beauty queen rejected by her white neighbors; down to Young in the present day as she leaves childhood behind and becomes a young woman.The lives of these girls and women come together to form a unique American epic in verse, one that speaks of generational curses, coming of age, homes and small towns, fleeting loves and lasting consequences, and the brutal and ever-present legacy of slavery in our nation's psyche. Each poem is a story in verse, and together they form a heart-wrenching and inspiring family saga of girls and women connected through blood and history.Informed by archival research, the last will and testament of an enslaver, formal interviews, family lore, and even a DNA test, Walking Gentry Home gives voice to those too often muted in America: Black girls and women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse. To get started finding Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
361
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
N/A
Release
2022
ISBN
0593498003

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